It’s a movie they’ll study for years to come. It’s a movie that will impact the way Hollywood approaches audiences for a decade. It’s now Top Five.
Either if you’re Tom Cruise, or if you’re a fan of the cinema sticking around, it doesn’t get much better than what Top Gun: Maverick has just achieved. Surely the film has exceeded every expectation prior to release. Go ahead and try to find somebody predicting that the movie would the fifth-highest domestic grosser of all time before adjusted for inflation. Go ahead and find anybody who thought it would dethrone Black Panther.
But that’s what the movie that never quits has just achieved on its third major holiday weekend in which it has been a contender for the top box office spot. It did it for Memorial Day Weekend, it did it for Independence Day Weekend and now it’s doing it for Labor Day Weekend. There’s never been a movie like this in modern cinematic history. And because of that, Tom Cruise has his highest grossing film of all time, plus a movie that owned 2022. It’s a phenomenon.
This dude is on a one-man mission to save modern cinema. https://t.co/cspiwHruv5
— The Critical Drinker (@TheCriticalDri2) September 5, 2022
Here’s the breakdown for Labor Day Weekend. And just look at the top two, maybe three, movies and see if you can find a pattern here. Spider-Man comes back to add even more to its coffers, Bullet Train is showing it has surprisingly good staying power (unless you’ve been watching Valliant Renegade who has argued it very much should). Not a single one of them are injected with politics of any kind. Not a single one of them denigrates anybody for their race, ethnicity, sex, gender, biology, etc. They’re just fun action films that portray positive masculinity, as WDW Pro was pointing out in a video yesterday.
Position, Previous, Title, Distributor, Projected Earnings for Labor Day Weekend
| 1 | (-) | Spider-Man: No Way Home — The More Fun Stuff Ve… | Sony Pictures | $6,000,000 | ||||||
| 2 | (4) | Top Gun: Maverick | Paramount Pi… | $5,495,000 | ||||||
| 3 | (2) | Bullet Train | Sony Pictures | $5,400,000 | ||||||
| 4 | (6) | DC League of Super Pets | Warner Bros. | $5,045,000 | ||||||
| 5 | (1) | The Invitation | Sony Pictures | $4,705,000 |
Courtesy: The-Numbers
So congratulations to everyone behind Top Gun 2. The movie is surely now at the end of its run and we’ll get information about a free streaming date. But when the sun finally sets on Maverick’s cinematic spectacular, the movie will sit above the $1,439,768,688 it’s already at. And for my best guess, I believe the movie will wind up with $1.45 billion before all is said and done.
What an awesome job, Tom. Keep saving the movies!
Look what just flew in! Love you Jerry and Linda! @BRUCKHEIMERJB @JBFilms #TopGunMarverick who would have thought this little Indi Film could turn out so well? pic.twitter.com/YUuJ4yPKM4
— Val Kilmer (@valkilmer) September 2, 2022
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Yay a Pentagon propaganda piece glamorizing the Glorius Empire! You people really are something else.
>You people really are something else.
So is the box office take for this film ?